Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas most fundamentally emphasizes which theme from Johnson’s other works or other 18thcentury works ?

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Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victoria’s moral crusade ?

A. There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world. B. Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned. C. Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work. D. Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office....

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?

A. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination B. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world C. The poet as special interpreter of the world D. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world...

How was the philosophical and popular emphasis on sensibility in the 18th century related to the development of the novel ?

A. Like the novel, it focused on romantic relationships. B. Like the novel, it foregrounded abstract reason over experience and emotion. C. Like the novel, it emphasized the importance of sympathy and individual feelings. D. Like the novel, it demonized the aristocracy....

John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?

A. England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London B. The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance C. The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King...

How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?

A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility. B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals. C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian. D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution....